-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- 97th Foot. 1824–1826|Scarlet,| Sky |Sevastopol, 1855. 97th, The Earl of | 1824--.| Blue, |Lucknow, 1858. Ulster’s. 1826----| |1824--. |Indian Mutiny, 1857– | | | 1858. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised at Winchester. It bears the motto “Quo fas et gloria ducunt.” It is nicknamed “The Celestials” from its facings. The first Regiment numbered the 97th was raised in 1760, and disbanded in 1763. The second was raised in 1780, disbanded in 1783; it served at the defence of Gibraltar, 1781–1783. The third was the 97th Strathspey Highlanders, raised in 1794, and disbanded in 1795. The fourth was raised in 1798 from foreigners at the capture of Minorca as “The Queen’s Germans,” numbered 97th in 1802; it served in Egypt 1801, and in the Peninsula War, and was disbanded as 96th Queen’s Own in 1818. It had Blue facings. The fifth was raised in 1804 as the 98th, and disbanded in 1818 as the 97th Foot. It had Buff facings. NINETY-EIGHTH FOOT. -------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- 98th Foot. 1824–1876|Scarlet,| White, |China, 1842. 98th, Prince of Wales’s. | 1824--.|1824--. |Punjaub, 1848–1849. 1876----| | | -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- It bears “The Dragon” for China 1842; also “The Plume of the Prince of Wales.” The first Regiment numbered the 98th was raised in 1760, it served at Havannah 1762, and was disbanded in 1763. The second was raised in 1780, and disbanded in 1783. The third was raised in 1794, and is now the 91st Princess Louise’s Argyleshire Highlanders. The fourth was raised in 1804, and was disbanded in 1818 as the 97th Foot. The fifth was raised in 1804 as 99th, renumbered 98th “Prince of Wales’s Tipperary,” and was disbanded in 1818. Its facings were Yellow. NINETY-NINTH FOOT.